Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
(2018)Streaming Episode Guide
Series 6
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge perform complex procedures to save lives.Make or Break
Episode 6 - 5-01-2024
Three surgeons operate together on a motorcyclist at University Hospital Southampton’s Major Trauma Centre after a crash leaves the patient with life-changing injuries.
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We Can Rebuild You
Episode 5 - 4-24-2024
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform high risk spinal surgery and attempt to repair a patient’s aorta - the body’s biggest artery - that’s threatening to burst.
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Hope
Episode 4 - 4-17-2024
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton face complex surgery to reconstruct a patient’s jaw and remove a cancerous oesophagus.
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The Best Laid Plans
Episode 3 - 4-10-2024
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton operating on two patients - removing rare tumours and correcting a patient’s bowed legs - must alter their plans to avoid catastrophe.
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All for One
Episode 2 - 4-03-2024
At University Hospital Southampton surgeons perform lifesaving surgery; taking out a patient’s eye and the tumour behind it and removing an 83-year-old man’s cancerous bladder.
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Episode 1
3-27-2024
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton take on high-risk surgery to remove life-threatening tumours.
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Series 5
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge perform complex procedures to save lives.One Step at a Time
Episode 6 - 2-22-2023
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on two road accident victims who have suffered life-changing injuries so serious they could lead to an amputation.
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Make or Break
Episode 5 - 2-15-2023
Addenbrooke’s surgeons perform life-changing scoliosis surgery to straighten the spine of their 17-year-old patient but face the risk of causing paralysis.
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Danger Zone
Episode 4 - 2-08-2023
Addenbrooke’s surgeons take on two high-risk operations; surgery to excise tumours near the spinal cord and a procedure to remove a dangerous mass off the body’s largest vein.
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Back to Life
Episode 3 - 2-01-2023
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s operate against the clock to remove a kidney from a husband and transplant it into his wife, who is in end-stage kidney failure.
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Every Moment Counts
Episode 2 - 1-25-2023
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform brain surgery on a patient who is awake and attempt to repair a section of the body’s biggest blood vessel that’s threatening to burst.
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Major Trauma - Back from the Brink
Episode 1 - 1-18-2023
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on a single mum who has a severed spinal cord and a critically injured motorcyclist.
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Series 4
Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s perform complex procedures to save lives.Episode 6
12-16-2021
Addenbrooke’s major trauma team and surgeons treat some of the country's most critically injured patients. Multiple teams must decide whether a man's damaged arm can be saved.
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Episode 5
12-09-2021
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform a complex procedure to help a patient swallow again and remove a tumour that is threatening a patient’s vision.
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Episode 4
12-02-2021
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital take on life changing surgery that takes two specialist surgeons two days to perform and involves removing all the organs in the patient’s pelvis.
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Episode 3
11-25-2021
Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke's hospitals must put their patients back together again after removing life-threatening lung and facial tumours.
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Episode 2
11-18-2021
Operations to transform patients’ lives. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth take on a high-risk spine procedure and perform open heart surgery on an 80-year-old patient.
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Episode 1
11-11-2021
Operations where even a small mistake is catastrophic. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals remove a life-threatening tumour and repair a young patient’s aorta.
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Series 3
Surgeons perform extraordinarily complex and risky procedures to transform lives.Episode 4
10-27-2020
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals face a dilemma. Do the high risks of an operation outweigh the risk of not treating their patients' serious conditions?
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Episode 3
10-20-2020
Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s hospitals perform a high-risk double lung transplant and complex neurosurgery, where a slip of a scalpel could cause paralysis.
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Episode 2
10-13-2020
Following marathon procedures at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals in Cambridge. Two surgeons and a team of 25 work for 18 hours to salvage a high-risk procedure.
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Episode 1
10-06-2020
The award-winning series returns to show more pioneering work from some of the UK’s top surgeons. A patient’s body is drained of blood to remove life-threatening clots in her lungs
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Series 2
Surgeons perform extraordinarily complex and risky procedures to transform lives.Every Second Counts
Episode 6 - 5-14-2019
Surgeons take on major trauma operations at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They have just minutes to save a woman with a life-threatening bleed on her brain.
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Getting Better
Episode 5 - 5-07-2019
A surgeon performs the most complex operation in his field: removing a woman’s oesophagus and using her own stomach to replace it. Another team tackles a hard-to-reach tumour.
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A New Beginning?
Episode 4 - 4-30-2019
At Birmingham Children’s Hospital, surgeons must transplant a kidney from a father to his two-year-old son, while a three-year-old girl needs a life-changing heart procedure.
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A Risk Worth Taking?
Episode 3 - 4-23-2019
Surgeons at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital carry out radical operations to help change patients’ lives, including the hospital’s largest ever removal of excess tissue.
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Pushing The Boundaries
Episode 2 - 4-16-2019
Maxillofacial surgeon Tim Martin operates on a woman with a disease so rare, he is thought to be the first in the UK to attempt the procedure.
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One False Move
Episode 1 - 4-09-2019
The series returns to the operating theatres of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. A neurosurgeon has to wake his patient up during an operation to remove his brain tumour.
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Series 1
Documentary following surgeons as they push medical boundaries to the limit.The Pioneers
Episode 3 - 1-22-2018
Some of the country's top surgeons perform high-stakes surgery. This episode follows surgeons and patients through three clinical trials at the vanguard of medicine.
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Last Chance Saloon
Episode 2 - 1-15-2018
Top surgeons perform high-stakes surgery. The surgeons must stop a patient's heart, chill his body and drain out his blood before they can operate.
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The Longest Day
Episode 1 - 1-08-2018
Some of the country's top surgeons perform high-stakes surgery. Maxillofacial surgeons Tim Martin and Sat Parmar prepare for a marathon operation on Teresa.
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